Organization

Singer

Alice Malakhov

The Girl

Conductor

Brian Current

Jennifer Tung

Assitant conductor

Stage director

Philip Akin

Lighting designer

Noah Feaver

Assistant Director

Sheree Spencer

Michael Hidetoshi Mori

Maria Fuller

Associate Set  & Costume Designer

Sim Suzer

Choreographer

Allison Grant

Lauren Pearl Eberwein

Louise

Roger Honeywell

Glenn

Caitlin Wood

The Housewife

Andrea Ludwig

The Mother

Keith Klassen

The Celebrity

Justin Welsh

The Teacher

Tapestry Opera

Gould’s wall

Toronto

Canada

The Royal Conservatory of Music

Atrium

Gravity-transcending opera: Gould’s wall Current

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Approved

Behind the scenes on Gould's Wall | Climbing the wall | Opera inspired by Glenn Gould

Gravity-transcending opera

DARE TO CLIMB THE WALL?
A young, extraordinarily talented musician is striving for perfection in her art. Her path to greatness? A magnificent wall.  

Bursting with the compulsion to reach the top, she invokes Canadian icon, classical pianist Glenn Gould to guide her towards dizzying heights – but the path isn’t easy. Each brick represents her art, her rigour, and her challenge. Does she have the strength, or will she slip and fall into the abyss?

Artists climb and perform suspended from The Royal Conservatory’s atrium in this daring new opera, which connects the wall’s historic past to the present in a thrilling staging that transcends gravity.

Award-winning theatre artist and librettist Liza Balkan evokes the young artist’s rigorous journey, weaving many of Gould’s own words into the libretto, and acclaimed Canadian composer Brian Current delivers a thrilling, kinetic score played by a chamber orchestra and five pianists, including students from The RCM’s Taylor Academy. Gould’s Wall is directed by multiple Dora Award-winning Philip Akin.

English

Gould’s wall by Current, From (2022/2022), Directed by Philip Akin,, Conductor Brian Current, Jennifer Tung, The Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, Canada

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